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This is a question This book changed my life

The Goat writes, "Some books have made a huge impact on my life." It's true. It wasn't until the b3ta mods read the Flashman novels that we changed from mild-mannered computer operators into heavily-whiskered copulators, poltroons and all round bastards in a well-known cavalry regiment.

What books have changed the way you think, the way you live, or just gave you a rollicking good time?

Friendly hint: A bit of background rather than just a bunch of book titles would make your stories more readable

(, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov
A ten page short story about entropy and the death of the universe. The ending makes it possibly the best short story I've ever read.

www.multivax.com/last_question.html

I don't care how popular this post gets; you just need to read this story. DON'T SKIP AHEAD.
(, Thu 15 May 2008, 22:33, 4 replies)
Thanks.
I enjoyed that. A Good read. Cheers!
(, Thu 15 May 2008, 22:59, closed)
Very good
I've been reading through some of Asimov's old short stories in various collections recently, but none of them had that one.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 0:30, closed)
Oh man thank you
before I left England me and a couple of friends got very stoned and he looked that up on the internet and insisted I read it. I was a bit too baked to read at the time and the next morning I'd forgotten entirely what the story was called.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 11:54, closed)
So, the final answer
is no longer 42, but that the creator is/was a computer?
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 16:55, closed)

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